Cylinder Seal with a Presentation Scene and Cattle

first half 2nd millennium BCE (Anatolian)

1.2 cm 1.8 cm

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Seals first appeared in Cappadocia in the early 2nd millennium BCE. Mesopotamian influence can be seen in the use of hematite and elements such as the worshipper before the seated deity and the sun disk inside a crescent. Typically Cappadocian, however, is the crowded composit...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.
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